La MaMa Experimental Theatre

Writer-director Elizabeth Hess and her multidisciplinary Hess Collective return to the nurturing breast of La MaMa—where they staged their first show, Love Trade, in 2018—with a post-postfeminist performance piece in which a dinner party is crashed by a cross-cultural group of godesses with a lot on their minds. Hess also performs in the show alongside Akiko Aizawa, Schuylar Johns and Ninoshka De Leon Gill. 

Jerry Lieblich (Mahinerator) writes confounding, inventive works that interrogate the relationships between language, knowledge and power. This latest piece, presented by Lieblich's company Third Ear Theater, is set in a world of politics, science and war. The seasoned experimentalist Paul Lazar (of Big Dance Theatre) directs a cast of downtown all-stars: Jess Barbagallo, Jennifer Ikeda, Naren Weiss, Chloe Claudel, Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Anne Gridley and Mac Wellman muse Steve Mellor.